I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare. — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist’s work, but also in how he or she continues to create… — Sharon Louden Copy Share Image
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The idea that Veronica Wadley has no artistic credibility is just crazy. She has a strong reputation and when she was editor… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Public art is a unique type of art. It's very different to gallery art because it is something that we pass by… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“Never believe that villains are hurting people by accident. They want to get better at their craft of breaking jaws just as… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists. — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
When I do martial arts, I feel like its inward facing. Like, I'm improving myself, I'm getting healthier. It's almost like mindfulness… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
“Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.” — Alois Podhajsky Copy Share Image
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
I believe that, in our industry, overexposure tends to create problems for artists, so fortunately, I have been exposed but not overexposed. — Nora Fatehi Copy Share Image
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
